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The invention empowers a non-technical business user to easily establish a central master of product relationship rules. It provides flexibility in the specification of relationship functionality and in the rules for membership in a collection. It implements a higher-order specification (“any” source relates to “same” target) and stores the data efficiently with automatic updates when data is created or retired. Key aspects to protect include:
1. Relationship types are richly specified.
2. Calculating members of collections
a) Attribute-based rules for collection membership
b) Dynamic joins for optimal performance
c) Universal policy for all collections
d) Storage efficiency)
3. “Any-Same” Higher-Order Abstraction

Copyright

Copyright2011Microsoft

Country

United States

Language

English (United States)

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The invention empowers a non-technical business user to
easily establish a central master of product
relationship rules. It provides flexibility
in the specification of relationship functionality and in the rules for
membership in a collection. It
implements a higher-order specification (“any” source relates to “same”
target) and stores the data efficiently with automatic updates when data is
created or retired. Key aspects to
protect include:

1.
Relationship types are richly specified.

2.
Calculating members of collections

a) Attribute-based rules
for collection membership

b) Dynamic joins for
optimal performance

c) Universal policy for
all collections

d) Storage efficiency)

3.
“Any-Same” Higher-Order Abstraction

Description:

Business utility: The diagram below depicts that many
different relationship types ( renews, steps up, fulfills with) can be
specified between any given collection, and in the lower left hand list of
part numbers it illustrates that a collection can include (by rule
specification) multiple part numbers.
Relationship types can be self-referential (Office Standard SA renews
with Office Standard SA).

1. Rich
Relationship Type Specification:
The diagram below shows how a user defines a relationship type with
metadata that indicates the name, description, and whether the relationship
type is forward (from left to right) or inverse (from right to left). A relationship type can be specified to be
bi-directional, typically used for specifying equivalencies. The user specifies whether the collections
are calculated and saved with many members or having only a single
(individual to individual) member. Metadata about the relationship type is
published in the result set.